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[WIP] Ammonite Animated + Environment Video - UE5

Just wanted to share my current project - an ammonite that I've modelled and placed in a scene setup in UE5, using rock photogrammetry that I took while on holiday this year.The particles and plants …
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Nano Pixel

Bob's Atelier

We all know the feeling of staring at blank paper and hesitating whether to start. It's the same in 3D. How many times a person just sits and fights against procrastination, against the feeling of in…
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erin_bower

Maya Arnold - SkyDome HDRI not lighting my scene the way it whould

Heyo !I'm trying to recreate a photo I took recently in Arnold but I can't seem to figure out how to set it all up correctly. Here's what I'm aiming for :And here's what I got : I'm pretty happy…
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cmdrDsig

[WIP] The Black Pearl Captain's Quarters UE4

Hello, I've been working on Captains Quarters environment based on the Pirates of the Carribean movies. If I could get some feedback or suggestions regarding composition, lighting or anything else, I…
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Anthony_D

Grass Landscape

This is my final render after finishing chapter 4 of Rob Tuytel's course on creating environments.
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jrigaldies

Farm Landscape

This is my final render after finishing chapter 5 of Rob Tuytel's course on creating environments.
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Aizen

[Feedback] Tunnel under a road

Looking for feedback on this render. I'm unsure about the lighting in the tunnel and I want to find a way to make tree trunk roots. Any thoughts?
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Jordz

Neutral Lighting vs 3 point light for character look dev

Hey ive been working on some characters for UE4 and im getting to the lookdev step at workare there any advantages or disadvantages when using studio lighting or neutral  lighting?
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Eric Chadwick

Visiting an old friend! Lumen scene

You can view more here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/EL6oJe
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MiguelMNavas

Unity jagged lines shading artifacts

Hey guys! I'm having an issue with unity's shadows.As you can see, those lines are appearing on my model  and whenever I turn my camera around with the fps controller the lines change position s…
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vaspo

Environment artist looking for work

Hello my name is Brady Jahraus. I am a environment artist specializing in game development. I am looking for full time, part time, contract or freelance work. My primary skills are include:-Creating …
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BradyJ

Matching lighting workflow between main scene and props lookdev

I've made a large scene in maya with a lot of little objects. I exported each object (or group of objects) in the scene as its own .mb file so that I can work on them more easily. Now I want to textu…
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dharness

Finished Renders- help me make them better

Hello everyone!I feel I've gotten better in 2021 but still need tips on how to improve. These were made in Blender+Photoshop.I'd like tips on composition, lighting and overall quality of artworks. Th…
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PhilippSch

bake hdri light and reflection on object

Hello. Is it possible to bake HDRI environment on objects albedo map in marmoset toolbag 3 or 4 ?if not what is the resolution ? any other way ?
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AFsoft

UE4 Baked AO doesn't work.

For some reason Ambient Occlusion simply doesn't work in my project. I'm talking about the one in World Settings.Here are the settings:After several unsuccessful attempts at having AO after baking th…
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Kligan

Marmoset Toolbag - Use Cascades

Hey all, anyone have any good tuts to learn more about the 'Use Cascades' feature in Marmoset Toolbag 3? The settings I'm using seem finicky and tricky, but it's probably how I'm using them. Any thou…
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adamrice117

Unreal Engine 4 Lighting Units confusing, issues Candela to Lumens

Hi, I know something similar has been covered before but I couldn't find anything related to this issue.I have 4.26 UE version, here the issue:I want to simulate a Spotlight just like in real life. A…
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Alex_the3DRookie

Unity Area Lights - Always Artifacts!

Hi,Having an issue with Area Lights in Unity where they keep causing stray squared artefacts all the time to the point of making them unusable despite being perfect for some jobs. The issues are…
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Ricky

Custom Thumbnail?

I managed to set up a scene with three lights and (maybe some extreme) camera settings that produces the desired result after export.However, in the viewport the objects look completely overcast and …
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EarthQuake

(Arnold) How to Create Shadow layer for transparent shadows

I am currently trying to render a separate shadow pass to use while compositing. I have a colored glass with a transparent colored shadow, however, when I try to use aishadowmatte to isolate those sh…
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oglu

Hey I'm new here, Would really appreciate some feedback on my WIP :)

Hey Everyone, Glad to be here amongst the Polycount 3d community. To cut the story short and get into the nitty-gritty details...I'm basically working on a 3d environment in unreal engine to revamp m…
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A_B

[Crit Wanted] [Marmoset] 1959 Office Chaos

Ello ello,I'd like to hear your opinions on this portfolio piece before it goes up on the A-station. Bit of backstory: these are a few assets belonging to a bigger environment project I'm working on.…
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Sloth_42

[UE4] Cisternerne

Howdy fellas,Quick little project, saw this museum on my windows lock screen funnily enough, and thought it was simple yet interesting enough to quickly replicate in Unreal.Anyway, it's pretty much d…
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hyrulepiper

level concept artist. great use for portfolio. just drop a messege

we are currently looking for a concept artist who wants to add new work to their portfolio. we are currently aiming for a sci-fi-based war-like environment so if you feel like your skills match that …
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fatboy13555

[Finished] Fox's Journey - Mountain - UE4 - Lighting Study

Just finished this piece. Inspired by Peter Trans Cats Adventure.I only did the Level Design and Lighting for this using Megascans and Unreal Engine marketplace assets.https://www.artstation.com/artw…
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Muzammil

Lightning Study | Vol. 01

The first part of an effort to get better at working with baked lighting and especially getting a deeper understanding of lightmass and the whole UE4 lighting framework.Photo by Evgeny Larinhttps://v…
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krsolovev

How can I make accurate LED lights in Maya/VRay?

Hello, I’m trying to figure out by what means to properly simulate a 5mm LED bulb.here’s my model as yet:So far I’ve just kind of faked it by using colored sphere lights:but I’m trying to go for a re…
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ninthtale

Foliage Lighting/Shadows Issue

Hi all :)Working on some foliage at the moment and I can't for the life of me figure out what's best to do with my grass.I'm struggling to produce decent cast shadows without the back of the alpha sh…
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SopheeJay

Scene Lighting Help

I'm trying my hand at rendering in UE4. My goal with my current project it to replicate, or get as close to, a rendering I did in Substance Painter inside of the Unreal Engine and I would like some a…
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sprunghunt

Texturing Lighting Fixtures

This is an area I struggle a lot with. How would you texture the green glass shade and a regular cloth shade so that it look realistic when the light is turned on? My knowledge thus far and how I wou…
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ZacD

Substance painter not handling very long mesh correctly (Solved)

Edit: Resolved the problem. I didn't bake the normals.Edit: I've imported a small version of the same model with the same problem. The lighting generator acts if all the normals are pointing in the s…
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poopipe

Crystal Shrine

Hey everyone!Here's an environment I've been working on over the past few months.For the full post:https://www.artstation.com/artwork/GagBeaCheck the description of the Artstation post for the 4 part…
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alexo9

Lighting Artist looking for work (Freelance/Full-time)(will relocate)

My name is Gustavo Elliott, I am a 25 year old Lighting Artist looking for any opportunities available. I have spent the past five years of my life learning all I can about game development and I hav…
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Gustavo_Elliott

Lighting/Rendering general guides and best practices?

Hi folks and happy Friday,First post on polycount so I wanted to start with something simple. There might already be a thread about this, but I guess my questions would be about lighting and renderin…
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MattJQuint

F60 Light Study - Feedback?

Hi! I'm a third year VFX student and I'm looking to go into lighting for film, so I've started doing some light studies of things I find interesting. I did a fairly quick automotive light study of a …
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xeometry

The good old movable door lighting issue

Hi there! i've been looking for fixing this issue where my door blueprint don't want to match the lights of the scene but i can't find any post that fix the problem.The blueprint of the door is set t…
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MostHostLA

How is Env. art and 3D modeling in general, different in animation pipeline than that of in games?

Greetings,I just got a job offer from a studio where they're working on an upcoming Netflix series, They offered me a role of environment artist. Well, I have a background of working with video …
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Vishesh3008

[Finished][UE4] - SAKURA - Lighting Study

I decided to do a relighting on this Unreal Engine Blueprint map. Wanted to do pastel colour scheme after i saw the Masashi wakui photograph and overwatch hanamura map: https://www.flickr.com/ph…
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Muzammil

City Subway Train Lighting

Hi Guys,Here is my very first lighting study using the popular city subway train environment by Dekogon Studios. The aim was to light it using only the sunlight coming through the window and skylight…
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Muzammil

[UE4 SCENE] The Old One

Hey Guys, Here is a quick scene practice in Unreal Engine using marketplace assets during the course of a live-steam.  Assets used: African elephants, MAWI redwood forest, Paragon Sparrow.Bett…
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JZAcH

Raytracing GI lighting incorrectly

I've been trying out some RTX GI in an environment i'm working on, for the most part it looks really good, but on some specific meshes (walls and roofs) they're being completely lit up, unlike the ot…
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Ikatar

3D Character Artist

Hi! I'm a freelance character artist looking for any kind of paid job. Here is my portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/teabagContact: tanguytalbert@gmail.comcheers !
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Gax

[UE4] Roman Ruins - Lighting Practice

Hey you lovely poly-extruders !This is a quick scene I cobbled up with megascans assets to practice lighting in different times of day.HDRIs are from hdrihaven.com (f'ing love this site), the lightin…
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Ali_Youssef

Can anyone help me with Real-Time Character Lighting in UE4?

Hello everyone,I'm deciding to try my hands on some character Lighting and techniques and I need a little help from you as I don't know much about the character art pipeline.I am planning to use this…
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Vishesh3008

Looking for a short wholesome LIGHTING documentation where everything is explained. DF, GI and so on

Or can you write all relevant keywords down so I can google them and create my own little doc?Like I know Distance Field, Global Illumination, Cascadian.
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Obscura

W A K E - Short Film (UE4)

Hey guys ,After climbing my way from level design to env art to lighting art on static scenes, I felt it was a natural progression to move onto something more dynamic.The thought of doing a cinematic…
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JZAcH

Maya Viewport 2.0 | Light Rig

Hello, I hope this is the right section for this post. I wanted to share my light rig with you guys. Unreal and Blender Has gone quite crazy recently, though some of us are still stuck with the …
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lukybiernat

GI leak

Hi, I've been having this problem for a while now and I couldn't find a solution anywhere so I'm giving this a shot here, I have a this scene and for some reasons there's some GI leaking through the …
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DavidCruz

How to Create AO + Lighting Renders?

I've seen these amazing renders all over the internet showing an untextured model with just lighting and some ambient occlusion but I cannot find any tutorials that show how to make them. How exactly…
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WillDettrey

Edit Transform Origin / Manipulator Pivot Point?

Does anyone know of a way to make a light rotate around x Point instead of hopping out of my render camera to position the light from behind the model? A way to move the manipulator handle from the …
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WillDettrey

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